SWATCH Internet time? What is a Swatch .beat? We have divided up the day into 1000 ".beats". So, one Swatch ".Beat" is equivalent to 1 Minute 26.4 Seconds.
Why use Internet Time? Internet Time exists so that we do not have to think about timezones. For example, if a New York web-supporter makes a date for a chat with a cyber friend in Rome, they can simply agree to meet at an "@ time" - because internet time is the same all over the world. Where is the Internet Time meridian? Biel Meantime (BMT) is the universal reference for internet time. A day in internet time begins at midnight BMT (@000 Swatch .Beats) (Central European Wintertime). The Meridian is marked for all to see on the facade of the Swatch International headquarters on Jakob-Staempfli Street, Biel, Switzerland. When did Internet Time start? The BMT Meridian was inaugurated on October 23rd, 1998, in the presence of Nicholas Negroponte, founder and director of the media laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of P S Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 4:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] big iron mainframe vs. x86 servers On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:20 PM, McKown, John <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com > wrote: > I don't like metric, personally. Too Earth-centric. I think we need to > totally divorce all time and distance to more "universal" quantities. > I nominate the 21 cm hydrogen spectral line for a distance and 7E-10 > seconds for time (time for light to travel 21 cm). 1 gigatick would be .7 seconds. > Then, we can join the galactic societies! <grin> > OK, now you're scaring me, because I find this appealing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
